Lagos Prince to die for murder

Adewale Oyekan, a 50-year old Lagos prince and son of the immediate past Oba of Lagos, Late Adeyinka Oyekan, has been sentenced to death by the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja for killing a 62-year-old businesswoman and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaja Sikirat Ekun. Adewale was sentenced alongside a domestic worker, Lateef Balogun, on Monday by Justice Raliat Adebiyi for strangling Ekun and throwing her corpse in a well. Adewale and Balogun committed the offences around 1am on October 1, 2012, at the deceased’s home at…

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